Comments on: The Climate Is Changing http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2009/12/10/the-climate-is-changing/ This website will function as a clearinghouse for bulletins from participating cells, enabling readers to keep abreast of their activities and, more importantly, coordinate activities with them. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:05:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: b. traven http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2009/12/10/the-climate-is-changing/comment-page-1/#comment-18651 b. traven Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:56:23 +0000 http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/?p=1029#comment-18651 Soon, perhaps, getting a lump of coal in one's stocking for Christmas will be a sign of wealth and prestige. Even The Economist, the British capitalist weekly, is admitting that peak oil is going to hit within a couple decades. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean everyone is about to become a radical environmentalist. The current wrangling over whether we can credibly predict environmental change, filling the pages of The Wall Street Journal and the like, shows how little that crowd care about the actual damage being done to the environment before their very eyes. For them, the question is simply how capitalism can be maintained, nothing else. The same goes for Obama, Al Gore, and every "green" capitalist, including the ones who wish the discussions in Copenhagen had produced more results. Soon, perhaps, getting a lump of coal in one’s stocking for Christmas will be a sign of wealth and prestige. Even The Economist, the British capitalist weekly, is admitting that peak oil is going to hit within a couple decades.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean everyone is about to become a radical environmentalist. The current wrangling over whether we can credibly predict environmental change, filling the pages of The Wall Street Journal and the like, shows how little that crowd care about the actual damage being done to the environment before their very eyes. For them, the question is simply how capitalism can be maintained, nothing else. The same goes for Obama, Al Gore, and every “green” capitalist, including the ones who wish the discussions in Copenhagen had produced more results.

]]> By: Mackenzie http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2009/12/10/the-climate-is-changing/comment-page-1/#comment-18642 Mackenzie Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:59:07 +0000 http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/?p=1029#comment-18642 You have to wonder what kind of person thinks that carbon trading is actually a legitimate solution to any environmental problem. It's just unbelievable that not only corporations but the mass public is more willing to burn themselves and the entire world than control their own gross wasteage. I really find it sickening. I'm pretty sure there's going to be some kind of demonstration down where I am as well, and I'm looking forward to informing more people about it. You have to wonder what kind of person thinks that carbon trading is actually a legitimate solution to any environmental problem. It’s just unbelievable that not only corporations but the mass public is more willing to burn themselves and the entire world than control their own gross wasteage. I really find it sickening.
I’m pretty sure there’s going to be some kind of demonstration down where I am as well, and I’m looking forward to informing more people about it.

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